Graduate Assistants

Syed Muhammad Abubakar

Graduate Research Assistant

Climate change communication, environmental journalism, and health communication

Oare Danielle Addeh

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Social media research, Health Communication, Strategic Communication, Qualitative research method, Quantitative research method

Muna Al Taweel

Graduate Lecturer

Theories of Nationalism, Politics of Space, Identity Politics, Levantine Postcolonialism, S.W.A.N.A Studies , Trauma Studies

Michelle Cadwell Blackston

Graduate Research Assistant

Climate change communication, clean and renewable energy, environmental policy, environmental justice, journalism and the changing mainstream news media landscape.

Wan-Lun (Debby) Chang

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic communication--government-civilian public relations, persuasion and emotions/psychological reactions, message design, and social media

Joseph Adika Coffie

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Manoj Kumar Dahal

Graduate Research Assistant

Communication of Health Disparities, Digital Health Communication, Mobile Communication.

Khaled Dakak

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Media Representation, Media Consumption, Media Criticism, Cultural Studies, and Animation. 

Animesh Dev

Graduate Research Assistant

Socio-spatial processes, borders formation, design anthropology, interdisciplinary research & pedagogy, qualitative methods, global south, India, United States

Sandra Djaba

Graduate Research Assistant

Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Global Health Communication, Health Behavior, Pharmaceutical Communication, Digital Health, AI and eHealth Literacy

Ashley Elliott

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication

Peter T Figueroa

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Javonna M Friend

Graduate Research Assistant

Grace Furlong

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Arvind Geetha Christo

Graduate Lecturer

Neoliberal development, Development-induced Displacement, Development-induced Dispossession, Kerala Model of Development, Dalit Politics, Development Sociology, Social Movements, and Ethnography.

Narges Ghafary

Graduate Research Assistant

The intersections of gender, media, culture, and health inequalities in transnational contexts through an interdisciplinary approach.

Neha Gour

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate Change Communication, Public Health, Science Communication, Public Policy

Alyssa Harrell-Webber

Graduate Research Assistant

Health communication, patient-provider health communication, and health education and promotion

Doniven Hill-Bush

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Critical Media Studies, Decolonial Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Black Pop Culture Studies, the Black Radical Tradition, Forensics (Speech and Debate)

Jane Holloman

Graduate Professional Assistant

science communication, risk communication, environmental communication, climate change communication

Freya Miller Hutton

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sandeep (Anu) Kaur

Graduate Lecturer

Health communication; interpersonal communication 

Em Kohl

Graduate Lecturer

Climate and Intercultural Communication, Queer Theory, Media Studies, Risk Communication

Esther Abiodun Konan

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Siyoon Lee

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication

Fanchun Meng

Graduate Research Assistant

Brennan Mock

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Forensics (Competitive Speaking), Health and Strategic Communication.

Sachita Pandey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication Diplomacy and Public Affairs Integration of Media, Culture & Communication

Scott Perdue

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic Communications

Ama Gyesiwaa Quansah

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication

Sk Farhan Rabbi

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Strategic Communication, Health Communication, AI and Emerging Communication Technologies, and Advertising.

Balkisa Muhammed Sissy

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Avery Julianne Taylor

Graduate Lecturer

Mayah Taylor

Graduate Lecturer

Shannon M. Taylor-Heflin

Graduate Lecturer

Health Communication, Health Misinformation, Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Parent-Child Communication, Parenting

Allyson L. Wilson

Graduate Lecturer

Uncertainty, Heuristics & Biases, Normative Messaging, Persuasion, Social Media, Reputation, Social Support, Conflict

MaryKate Winter

Graduate Research Assistant

Xingya Xu

Graduate Lecturer

Yuan Yue

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate Change Communication/Environmental Communication/Science Communication

Rania Zaied

Graduate Lecturer

Rhetorical Criticism, Mass Communication, Media Rhetoric, Media Representations of Marginalized Communities, Culture, Intercultural Communication

Ying Zhuang

Graduate Research Assistant